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RURAL WATER TRANSPORT PROVIDES:. Transport for poor, remote communities Which means: Access to services Access to economic opportunities Access to employment. RURAL WATER TRANSPORT IS. People’s transport Technologically diverse Environmentally benign Energy efficient
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RURAL WATER TRANSPORT PROVIDES: • Transport for poor, remote communities • Which means: • Access to services • Access to economic opportunities • Access to employment
RURAL WATER TRANSPORT IS • People’s transport • Technologically diverse • Environmentally benign • Energy efficient • and locally based and maintained
INVISIBLE? • Well, raise the profile • Put pictures in front of decision makers • Put evidence in front of decision makers • Get the data that decision makers need • Put it in front of them • Explain it • Become a champion of the cause • Don’t give up!
NEGLECTED? • So show its importance • Stress poverty reduction, importance to poor, isolated communities • Talk to people who use RWT and become their voice to decision makers • Put the numbers in front of decision makers • Show them how cost effective RWT can be • Stress the importance of all modes WORKING TOGETHER • The message is integration, not either or • Explain that RWT operates at the feeder level - without it, grand high level schemes will fail • Don’t give up!
LOSING OUT TO ROADS? • Show that both have their place • Stress environmental benefits of waterways • And their energy efficiency • Promote least cost planning • Waterways are already there • It costs less to develop waterways than to build new roads • Roads and waterways should work together • Make sure waterways have a legal status and the protection this brings • Don’t give up!
PLAYING UPHILL? • Promote equal access to credit • Identify externalities of competing modes • Argue for removal of subsidies to other modes • Prepare cost comparisons and get them in front of the transport planners • Argue for equality in taxation